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Fears rise ‘world’s most dangerous glacier’ could soon collapse
‘We have suspected for years that Thwaites was not tightly attached to the bedrock beneath it,’ said Eric Rignot of the University of California, …
5 hours ago
EurekAlert (press release)
UCI/JPL study: Antarctica losing six times more ice mass …
“That’s just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak,” said lead author Eric Rignot, Donald Bren Professor and chair of Earth system science at UCI.
Jan 14, 2019
UCI News
Patagonia ice sheets thicker than previously thought, study finds
“We did not think the ice fields on the Patagonian plateau could be quite that substantial,” said co-author Eric Rignot, Donald Bren Professor …
Jun 3, 2019
UCI News
UCI, JPL glaciologists unveil most precise map ever of …
… continent,” said co-author Eric Rignot, chair and Donald Bren Professor of Earth System Science at UCI and a JPL senior research scientist.
Jul 29, 2019
Washington Post
Rate of ice loss from Greenland has grown by a factor of six since the 1980s, scientists find
Eric Rignot, an Earth systems scientist for the University of California at Irvine and NASA who was one of the study’s authors, said in an email …
Apr 22, 2019
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier Signals Rapid Decay
“We have suspected for years that Thwaites was not tightly attached to the bedrock beneath it,” said Eric Rignot of the University of California, …
Jan 30, 2019
NBCNews.com
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier may be thinning faster than previously thought
Eric Rignot, a University of California glaciologist who was not involved with the new study, hailed the research and said it showed how …
Sep 10, 2019
Science Friday
Antarctic Ice Is Melting—And It’s Melting Faster
Eric Rignot, climate scientist at the University of California-Irvine and one of the authors of the report, joins Ira to discuss the trends in the ice …
Jan 18, 2019
UCI News
UCI’s Eric Rignot and Steven White elected to National …
Irvine, Calif., May 1, 2018 – Eric Rignot, who studies the impact of climate change on our planet’s polar regions, and Steven White, an expert in …
May 1, 2018
The Maritime Executive
Study: Ice Loss Has Accelerated in Antarctica
“That’s just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak,” said lead author Eric Rignot of UC-Irvine. “As the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we …
Jan 15, 2019
UPI.com
Antarctica is shedding six times more ice mass than it was 40 years ago
… ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-meter sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries,” glaciologist Eric Rignot said.
Jan 15, 2019
Quartz
Antarctica’s ice sheets may melt faster than we thought
But Eric Rignot, lead author of the new study, told Quartz in an email, “IPCC projections are very conservative and ignore potential contribution …
Jan 15, 2019
The Maritime Executive
Glaciologists Unveil Most Precise Map of Antarctic Ice Flow
“That’s just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak,” said lead author Professor Eric Rignot of UCI. “As the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, …
Aug 6, 2019
fox2now.com
Greenland’s most critical glacier is suddenly gaining ice, but that might not be a good thing
“The chances that this will keep going on are very low in my opinion,” said Eric Rignot, a glaciologist at UC Irvine and Senior Research Scientist …
Mar 27, 2019
Bustle
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier Has A Gaping Hole — Here’s …
Eric Rignot, one of the study’s authors, emphasized to the New York Times that sea level rise from glacial melting is caused by rising ocean …
Feb 4, 2019
OCRegister
Most Influential 2015: Eric Rignot
Scientists feel most comfortable cleaving to the specific results revealed by their narrow experiments, studies and models. They allow …
Dec 20, 2015
FRONTLINE
Greenland’s Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Expected. See …
“The changes we are witnessing are amazing,” says Eric Rignot, a professor at The University of California, Irvine and a senior scientist on a …
Sep 20, 2018
The Spinoff
‘There’s a lot at stake here.’ US Antarctic expert Eric Rignot on climate science in the age of Trump
US-based glaciologist Eric Rignot is in New Zealand this week to talk about polar ice sheets and their potential to add to predicted sea level …
Feb 14, 2017
Science News
How climate change is already altering oceans and ice, and what’s to come
Polar caps quickly losing ice. Chalky coral reefs. Stronger storms that devastate islands and cities, claiming lives and destroying homes.
Sep 25, 2019